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his pilot at the late sham fight ; Miss 
Sharpe, the mayor of Deal’s daugh- 
ter; and Mr. Kgleton, the only son 
of a banker at Deal. Some sailors 
of this port were out all night drag- 
ging for the bodies, but to no effect. 
A subscription for the four sailors 
who were spared in the above acci- 
dent, was immediately set on foot at 
the library, and the men were, within 
a few hours, clothed. 
21st. Mr. Moody and Mr. Parks, 
two midshipmen of the Leyden, lately 
quarrelled slightly at Sheerness. ‘They 
were, by their captain’s interposition, 
mutually reconciled ; but, within 
less than half an hour after, Mr. 
Moody, taking up a pistol in the 
cock-pit, which he supposed not to 
have been loaded, sportively levelled 
it at Mr. Parks. Mr. Parks sank 
on the floor in the agonies of death, 
and soon after expired. 
A quaker was committed to 
Gloucester gaol, for the space of 
three months, by T. B. Delabere, 
and another magistrate, for refusing 
to be swern in, or to providea pro- 
per substitute, for the county mi- 
litia. + 
23d.. A bet was made to run 
a poney, about thirteen hands 
high, from London, to the fif- 
ty mile stone on the Colchester 
road, and back again, in thirteen 
hours. ‘The poor animal went to 
the extent of his journey, and re- 
turned to the Black Boy inna, 
Chelmsford, in about six hours, and 
did not appear much distressed ; but 
when it reached ‘the Cauliflower, at 
Ilford, about eight miles short of 
the place whence it started, its 
Strength and spirits became totally 
exhausted, and it dropped down and 
expired. 
24th. The king’s horses from 
Tlanover were landed at Perry’s 
455 
dock. They consist of nine black 
stallions and eleven mares, two cream- 
coloured stallions and eight mares, 
ten white stallions and five mares, 
five mouse-coloured stallions and one 
mare, and two brown mares; in all 
fifty-three. There'were, likewise, 
brought with them, several Stallions 
and mares belonging to the duke of 
Cambridge; with them came thirty 
grooms, belonging to his majesty, 
from Hanover. 
Advices were received at the ad- 
miralty office of the bombardment 
of the towns of Granville and Dieppe, 
on the French coast, by the squa- 
drons of sir James Saumarez and 
capt. Owen. ‘The inhabitants of 
both places sustained considerable 
damage and alarm, without any ma- 
terial loss to the English force. 
27th. About two o’clock this 
afternoon a melancholy accident oc- 
curred at Ibbetson’s hotel, in Vere- 
Street, Oxford-street—an accident 
which is the more to be lamented, 
as it has deprived the country of a 
valuable officer, ata period when 
such a loss must be doubly felt, and 
inflicted a deep wound on the mind 
of his surviving friend, who, unin- 
tentionally, was the cause of it. 
Thomas Best, esq. an officer in the 
army, had lodged at Ibbetson’s for 
some days, aud was on the eve of de- 
parture to join his regiment, on its 
march to the codst. A post-chaise 
was at the door of the hotel to re- 
ceive him. His particular acquaint- 
ance and friend, lieut. Charles Jones, 
of the Kast India company’s service, 
had, in the mean time, called on, and 
was to accompany him to the coun- 
try. Their pistols were lying on 
the table, ready to be put into the 
pockets of the post-chaise. In the 
course of a conversation about high- 
waymen, excited by their intended 
Fr2 journey, 
